After a week of summerlike sunshine, much of Utah will experience fall-like temperatures and rain over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Starting Sunday, the forecast calls for highs in the 60s through Wednesday — about 20 degrees cooler than the highs northern Utah has seen this week.

Showers are expected to arrive first, landing as early as Saturday in the Salt Lake City area. There is a 70% chance of precipitation and some gusty winds are expected, according to the weather service.

That rain, along with possible thunderstorms, could stretch into Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

The forecast precipitation is largely thanks to the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel, which was moving through the eastern Pacific on Thursday.

Hayden Mahan, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Salt Lake City office, said the storm is expected to make landfall on the Baja California coast, south of Tijuana, sometime Saturday.

By the time Rachel reaches Utah, it will have weakened to a post-tropical system. Still, it is capable of dropping between 1 and 3 inches of precipitation on parts of the state.

“We could still see some pretty heavy winds, some pretty strong winds, with it as it moves through,” Mahan said.

After, Mahan said the showers Monday through Wednesday should stem from a low-pressure system expected to meander around Utah.

Systems like that, Mahan said, “are a little pesky.” Their movements are harder to predict, because they are not affected by the jet stream.

“They kind of move at their own pace, because there’s not a lot of things to steer them,” he said.

The predicted rainfall could bring a slight risk of flash flooding in certain parts of Utah, such as burn scar areas and slot canyons, the weather service’s forecast noted.